Will
@willparker.bsky.social
Artist, dog lover, and avid reader.
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Things may seem dark. They may appear foreboding. But if you’re anything like me, there’s hope. One more Black Friday purchase is going to fix me. I can feel it.
November 27, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Things may seem dark. They may appear foreboding. But if you’re anything like me, there’s hope. One more Black Friday purchase is going to fix me. I can feel it.
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This is heartbreaking, infuriating & shameful all at once. Our “record” as a country committed to refugee protection is rapidly crumbling, at a time when that example is so sorely needed in a world of closing borders. Time to turn in our Nansen Award.
Immigration minister puts new private refugee sponsorships on hold until 2027
Canadian Council for Refugees terms extension a ‘cruel blow for refugees’
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:17 AM
This is heartbreaking, infuriating & shameful all at once. Our “record” as a country committed to refugee protection is rapidly crumbling, at a time when that example is so sorely needed in a world of closing borders. Time to turn in our Nansen Award.
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Nation-Building or Asset Stranding: What Canada’s Latest Megaprojects Tell Us
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Nation-Building or Asset Stranding: What Canada’s Latest Megaprojects Tell Us - CleanTechnica
Canada’s new megaprojects focus on LNG expansion over clean infrastructure. A national HVDC spine offers a stronger path for growth and climate alignment.
cleantechnica.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Nation-Building or Asset Stranding: What Canada’s Latest Megaprojects Tell Us
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cleantechnica.com/2025/11/15/n...
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You absolutely should question if this 4-hour interrogation of an internationally renowned legal expert on his *95TH BIRTHDAY* was politically motivated and an abuse of power
If CBSA refuses to explain itself, it is betraying the public's trust and deserves no benefit of the doubt
If CBSA refuses to explain itself, it is betraying the public's trust and deserves no benefit of the doubt
November 16, 2025 at 3:49 AM
You absolutely should question if this 4-hour interrogation of an internationally renowned legal expert on his *95TH BIRTHDAY* was politically motivated and an abuse of power
If CBSA refuses to explain itself, it is betraying the public's trust and deserves no benefit of the doubt
If CBSA refuses to explain itself, it is betraying the public's trust and deserves no benefit of the doubt
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"Fossil demand has been flat for industrial energy since 2014, for buildings since 2018, for road transport since 2019, & may peak for electricity this year. 2/3 of countries have already seen peak fossil demand in end-use sectors, & half the world has seen a peak in fossil fuels for electricity."
The Electrotech Revolution | Ember
The annual slidedeck from Kingsmill Bond and the Ember Futures team unpacks how electrotech is rewriting the economics and geopolitics of energy.
ember-energy.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:02 AM
"Fossil demand has been flat for industrial energy since 2014, for buildings since 2018, for road transport since 2019, & may peak for electricity this year. 2/3 of countries have already seen peak fossil demand in end-use sectors, & half the world has seen a peak in fossil fuels for electricity."
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I’m honestly shocked that this story from @globalnews.ca has flown under the radar. Confirmation that Amit Shah, the second-most powerful man in the Indian government, was directly involved in the assassinations on Canadian soil. globalnews.ca/news/1151469...
Intercepted communications link Indian government to B.C. Sikh leader’s assassination | Globalnews.ca
British intelligence provided Canada with initial tip tying India’s government to temple leader's 2023 killing.
globalnews.ca
November 9, 2025 at 6:25 AM
I’m honestly shocked that this story from @globalnews.ca has flown under the radar. Confirmation that Amit Shah, the second-most powerful man in the Indian government, was directly involved in the assassinations on Canadian soil. globalnews.ca/news/1151469...
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Latest from me about how a consortium of companies led by Shell offered at least one community member money as long as they agreed not to raise concerns with "members of the media, the [BC Energy Regulator] or the District of Kitimat."
LNG Canada offered thousands of dollars to a Kitimat, B.C., resident to temporarily “relocate” due to flaring and noise from the company's gas liquefaction and export facility. The resident would also have to agree not to bring future legal claims about property damage.
thenarwhal.ca/lng-canada-k...
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LNG Canada offered Kitimat residents money — if they stay quiet | The Narwhal
Neighbours of LNG Canada’s Kitimat plant were offered thousands to compensate for noise and smoke, if they promise not to complain
thenarwhal.ca
November 4, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Latest from me about how a consortium of companies led by Shell offered at least one community member money as long as they agreed not to raise concerns with "members of the media, the [BC Energy Regulator] or the District of Kitimat."
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Look at this, every year infrastructure spending for non-Native communities goes up, and at the same time spending for First Nations infrastructure goes down.
November 4, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Look at this, every year infrastructure spending for non-Native communities goes up, and at the same time spending for First Nations infrastructure goes down.
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Absolutely amazing: they've got so much solar in Australia that they need more people to use more of it, so the gov't has instructed energy retailers to offer *at least three hours of free power* during the middle of the day.
Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...
Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...
Energy retailers to be directed to offer free power three hours a day
Saying there is enough solar power for everyone in the daytime, Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen will direct retailers to provide three hours of free power every day to consumers.
www.abc.net.au
November 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Absolutely amazing: they've got so much solar in Australia that they need more people to use more of it, so the gov't has instructed energy retailers to offer *at least three hours of free power* during the middle of the day.
Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...
Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...
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how the CBC forced me to resign over COVID
and why we’re all worse off for it—especially our kids
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(on the occasion of my son’s [5th] and the CBC’s [89th] shared birthday, nov. 2)
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how the CBC forced me to resign over COVID
and why we’re all worse off for it—especially our kids
a 🧵
(on the occasion of my son’s [5th] and the CBC’s [89th] shared birthday, nov. 2)
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November 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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how the CBC forced me to resign over COVID
and why we’re all worse off for it—especially our kids
a 🧵
(on the occasion of my son’s [5th] and the CBC’s [89th] shared birthday, nov. 2)
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how the CBC forced me to resign over COVID
and why we’re all worse off for it—especially our kids
a 🧵
(on the occasion of my son’s [5th] and the CBC’s [89th] shared birthday, nov. 2)
👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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This is some psychotic, McCarthy-esque bullshit.
The Canadian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research is launching a US-style attack on EDI in Tri-Council funding.
As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.
As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.
October 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM
This is some psychotic, McCarthy-esque bullshit.
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I once talked publicly about this as an intern, and it nearly destroyed my career before it even started. They even went after my (unrelated) guiding career! Really fun stuff.
its wild how many media outlets take oodles of oil and gas money. like, immoral and craven sums
October 27, 2025 at 11:34 PM
I once talked publicly about this as an intern, and it nearly destroyed my career before it even started. They even went after my (unrelated) guiding career! Really fun stuff.
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FYI for BC residents, if you want a COVID booster/flu shot, I was able to search in my emails for a previous "Book your next vaccine appointment" from a previous year and click on the link and it just let me schedule my covid vaccine.
October 14, 2025 at 5:27 PM
FYI for BC residents, if you want a COVID booster/flu shot, I was able to search in my emails for a previous "Book your next vaccine appointment" from a previous year and click on the link and it just let me schedule my covid vaccine.
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Statement from the president of the Parliamentary Press Gallery, on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s trip to Egypt:
“It is unprecedented that Canadian media be entirely excluded from a Canadian prime minister’s foreign trip.”
“It is unprecedented that Canadian media be entirely excluded from a Canadian prime minister’s foreign trip.”
October 15, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Statement from the president of the Parliamentary Press Gallery, on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s trip to Egypt:
“It is unprecedented that Canadian media be entirely excluded from a Canadian prime minister’s foreign trip.”
“It is unprecedented that Canadian media be entirely excluded from a Canadian prime minister’s foreign trip.”
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‘Q2’25, 54.0% EU net electricity generated in the EU from renewable energy sources, up 52.7% vs 2024…increase mostly due to solar…19.9% of the total…June 2025 first where solar (22.0%) main source of electricity in EU, nuclear (21.6%), wind (15.8%), hydro (14.1%) natural gas (13.8%)’
Solar: main source of EU electricity in June with 22%
In the second quarter of 2025, 54.0% of net electricity generated in the EU came from renewable energy sources, an increase from the 52.7% registered in the same quarter of 2024. This increase was mos...
ec.europa.eu
September 29, 2025 at 11:46 PM
‘Q2’25, 54.0% EU net electricity generated in the EU from renewable energy sources, up 52.7% vs 2024…increase mostly due to solar…19.9% of the total…June 2025 first where solar (22.0%) main source of electricity in EU, nuclear (21.6%), wind (15.8%), hydro (14.1%) natural gas (13.8%)’
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Breaking news: Thirty-one journalists were killed in Israeli airstrikes on a newspaper complex in Yemen last week, according to a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists.
They say it was “the deadliest strike on journalists in the Middle East.”
They say it was “the deadliest strike on journalists in the Middle East.”
Israel killed 31 journalists in Yemen strike, press freedom group says
Last week’s attack was “the deadliest strike on journalists in the Middle East” ever documented by the Committee to Protect Journalists.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 19, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Breaking news: Thirty-one journalists were killed in Israeli airstrikes on a newspaper complex in Yemen last week, according to a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists.
They say it was “the deadliest strike on journalists in the Middle East.”
They say it was “the deadliest strike on journalists in the Middle East.”
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Don't sleep on the good news, folks. It's rare these days. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-ind...
Analysis: India’s power-sector CO2 falls for only second time in half a century - Carbon Brief
India’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from its power sector fell by 1% year-on-year in the first half of 2025 and by 2% over the past 12 months
www.carbonbrief.org
September 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Don't sleep on the good news, folks. It's rare these days. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-ind...
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NEW: The chief of staff to Alberta’s minister of energy and minerals is also the head of the political third-party advertiser Alberta Resource Advocacy Foundation. The group’s chief financial officer is named in lobbying records actively lobbying the energy ministry on more than two dozen accounts.
The chief of staff for Alberta’s energy minister heads up an advertising group that has a CFO who is actively lobbying his ministry. Read what we found.
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#abpoli
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#abpoli
Alberta energy minister’s chief of staff runs political third party with oil and gas lobbyist
The chief of staff to Alberta’s minister of energy and minerals is also the head of the political third-party advertiser Alberta Resource Advocacy Foundation
buff.ly
September 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
NEW: The chief of staff to Alberta’s minister of energy and minerals is also the head of the political third-party advertiser Alberta Resource Advocacy Foundation. The group’s chief financial officer is named in lobbying records actively lobbying the energy ministry on more than two dozen accounts.
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BC Greens: fix your voter verification process.
Here are the steps.
globalgreen.news/emily-lowan-...
#bcpoli
Here are the steps.
globalgreen.news/emily-lowan-...
#bcpoli
Emily Lowan Calls for Immediate Fix to BC Green Voter Verification Crisis
As the BC Green Party leadership race heads into its critical final weeks, concerns are mounting over a verification process that could disenfranchise thousands of new members — especially youth — who...
globalgreen.news
September 7, 2025 at 1:49 AM
BC Greens: fix your voter verification process.
Here are the steps.
globalgreen.news/emily-lowan-...
#bcpoli
Here are the steps.
globalgreen.news/emily-lowan-...
#bcpoli
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There is a long list of strange decisions around the Green leadership race, but at the top is not only making voter verification nigh impossible, but requiring *only new members* to get verified.
That's not normal. Eg. Fed Libs required it of *all members* voting for leader
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That's not normal. Eg. Fed Libs required it of *all members* voting for leader
3/x
September 2, 2025 at 4:29 AM
There is a long list of strange decisions around the Green leadership race, but at the top is not only making voter verification nigh impossible, but requiring *only new members* to get verified.
That's not normal. Eg. Fed Libs required it of *all members* voting for leader
3/x
That's not normal. Eg. Fed Libs required it of *all members* voting for leader
3/x
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🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time.
When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”
When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”
August 28, 2025 at 2:51 AM
🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time.
When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”
When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”
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In response, I hope folks can continue to read and share the article
"Genocide is a process, not an event", in the Globe: theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
And open-access: justiceinconflict.org/2025/08/02/t...
"Genocide is a process, not an event", in the Globe: theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
And open-access: justiceinconflict.org/2025/08/02/t...
Opinion: Genocide is a process, not an event
We need to understand the nature of genocide – how the ground is laid by dehumanization and slow violence - if we hope to prevent it and hold perpetrators to account
theglobeandmail.com
August 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM
In response, I hope folks can continue to read and share the article
"Genocide is a process, not an event", in the Globe: theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
And open-access: justiceinconflict.org/2025/08/02/t...
"Genocide is a process, not an event", in the Globe: theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
And open-access: justiceinconflict.org/2025/08/02/t...
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Today's Globe includes a Q&A with a Palestinian cookbook author who's been calling "attention to the devastation in Gaza, particularly the forced starvation."
Online, the mention of "forced starvation" has been removed and a correction issued: www.theglobeandmail.com/life/food-an...
Online, the mention of "forced starvation" has been removed and a correction issued: www.theglobeandmail.com/life/food-an...
August 14, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Today's Globe includes a Q&A with a Palestinian cookbook author who's been calling "attention to the devastation in Gaza, particularly the forced starvation."
Online, the mention of "forced starvation" has been removed and a correction issued: www.theglobeandmail.com/life/food-an...
Online, the mention of "forced starvation" has been removed and a correction issued: www.theglobeandmail.com/life/food-an...
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The Israeli military has a special unit called the “Legitimization Cell" assigned to identify Gaza-based journalists it could portray as undercover Hamas operatives, in an effort to blunt growing global outrage over Israel’s killing of reporters.
I'm going to be sick
www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-...
I'm going to be sick
www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-...
Israeli army unit tasked with linking Gaza journalists to Hamas
Treating the media as a battlefield, a secretive intelligence squad scoured Gaza for material to bolster Israeli hasbara — including questionable claims that would justify the killing of Palestinian r...
www.972mag.com
August 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The Israeli military has a special unit called the “Legitimization Cell" assigned to identify Gaza-based journalists it could portray as undercover Hamas operatives, in an effort to blunt growing global outrage over Israel’s killing of reporters.
I'm going to be sick
www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-...
I'm going to be sick
www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-...